I'm doomemed. It’s Simone’s fault. Or mine, for talking too much. Somebody with so much to say is an easy victim.
So now I have to find ten things that make me happy, and in the process feel less happy about it. Frankly, I’m surprised. This is a form where you fill in your own numbers. She should have known better!
1. That God consistently deflates my ego. And doesn’t mind spending an eternity doing it.
2. Those times, once every few years, when the kids sleep through the night, and I wake up before them, having slept late. Small miracles are still miracles.
3. Thinking. I’m obsessive about it. I’m not claiming anything profound here – just that I can be having a conversation while the analytical corner of my brain is performing some kind of combinatorics exercise. Without distracting me too much.
4. Genuine time off – no chores to do, just completely discretionary time. Particularly if it’s enough to…
5. See a movie. It needn’t be fantastic, but it’s nice to inhabit a different world for a couple of hours. But the best kind are by…
6. Alfred Hitchcock. Because he’s never boring.
7. Competing. Board games, trivia, anything that requires no genuine ability below the neck.
8. The totally novel, as in never-before-in-my-life, idea that it might be possible to increase my general fitness and wellbeing while exercising, and enjoy it. Courtesy of the new bike that I bought for Father’s/birth/Christmas/anniversary Day last week. It goes really fast. Even with me on it. And not just due to the effects of gravity when falling over.
9. Cheesy pop music. Not all of it, thankfully. But a strong keyboard, or a ballad, or Bono…and I’m a goner.
10. Reading the Bible, and finding once again something new, thereby demonstrating that God is not just cool but also eternally satisfying. And far better than Hitchcock!
Not too painful, then. That means I can tag people with a clear conscience. Well, the only active readers here that I’m aware of are Byron and Rach. Though I doubt Rach will be adding to that particular blog… And I’ll tag Andrew too, seeing as Simone didn’t!
6 comments:
This made me laugh, Anthony. Nicely ironic.
Bahahaha yehhhhhh I don't think I'll be updating that particularly blog either. Gee that was 3 years ago! It's always funny to read back on those things :)
Well, I suppose irony is something else that makes me happy.
Unsolved mysteries, though, not so much. Who's that laughing?
I think I found out more about you from that post than from reading all your comments over the last couple of years!
Fantastic!
Hmmm, happiness is not being tagged in memes too often. I'll add it to my list of "posts to do"... (though I really am meant to be writing a conference paper...)
I suppose it's easy to make wisecracks for years without blowing your cover. Ah well.
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